what is chiropractic there's a lot of confusion out there as far as what
chiropractic actually is and what chiropractic is not so we're going to go
over three main concepts or ideas that define chiropractic and how chiropractic
can help you and your health as well as the health and life of your family now
when we get down to chiropractic we first have to recognize that the body is
intelligent but the body has this inborn wisdom within that when we cut our skin
it heals when we break a bone it heals we eat food it's digests that food
without us even thinking about it our heart is beating our lungs are breathing
our body is carrying out millions of functions every single day yet we don't
have to think about it so that proves right there that there's an innate
intelligence within the body and the body is trying to survive it will do
whatever it can to get by and adapt to the environment so that is the first
concept that we're talking about this is the foundation or the basic premise of
chiropractic and that is number one we have this innate intelligence
but where does this intelligence reside where does it live within the body so
that means we have to look at what controls every single function in the
body very simply that's our brain right so we have our brain that needs to be
able to send signals to our body so every single cell tissue and organ in
our body needs to be in communication with our brain in order to function and
the better that connection the better our body functions and the higher the
level of our health so the way that our brain communicates with our body is
through our nervous system more specifically our central nervous system
so the extension of the brain is the spinal cord which is protected by our
spine and then you have 31 pairs of nerves that come out and hook up and
wire to every single organ and muscle in your body and so what happens is there
needs to be a continuous communication that's going on between brain and body
and body and brain and so you have communication coming down to the body
now that body needs to be able to send a signal back up to the brain telling the
brain the exact state in which those cells are in and that needs to keep
happening over and over again so this is health this is what controls all
function so this is our health how we function
and ultimately this is life so it's how well we adapt to our environment through
our nervous system that we really need to be looking at when looking at our
health so this is first and foremost looking at the nervous system now once
we understand that and establish that fact and then we recognize that our
central nervous system our spinal cord and the nerve roots are protected by our
spine we now have to look at the health of the spine because what happens is if
our spine is twisted shifted or misaligned out of its normal position
that can cause pressure irritation inflammation impingement and tension on
the spinal cord and nerves and so when we have a spinal misalignment so when
one or more bones of the spine is misaligned or not moving well causing
that interference on the nerves and chiropractic this is what we call a
subluxation another way to look at this this is a block it's a block in
communication from the brain to the body so there's no possible time that when
the spine is misaligned putting pressure on that nerve that you can get 100% of
those messages the way they should be to those cells and back again so this is
the first area that we need to be looking at when it comes to our health
because really this is the foundation of health and so this is the thing that
really separates us from every other provider whether it's medical providers
or other natural healthcare providers as we are looking to identify this
subluxation okay so this is the misalignment this is the thing that we
look for now when we look at that how do we identify these subluxations well there's
a lot of different ways and a lot of different methods that chiropractors use
some of the more common ones in the exam are looking
at posture how someone is holding themselves that can be an indication of
spinal health however that doesn't give all of the information about someone's
spinal health another thing is looking at how the body moves the spine is meant
to move through certain ranges of motion and if your stiff tight restricted and
locked up that's an indication that you have poor movement patterns in the spine
and you likely have a subluxation another thing that we're trained to do
is evaluate the spine through palpation or a palpation exam where we feel the
spine we feel for those misalignments this is where we feel for asymmetry
maybe the muscles in the spine are tighter than the others if it's more
acute you might feel inflammation around the area a lot of times it can be tender
and sore when we put pressure there on the spine but that doesn't have to be
the case you can have these subluxations and not even know they're there not even
feel them which then leads us to what I feel is the best way to evaluate the
spine which is through getting pictures looking at x-rays literally in
black-and-white getting objective information on what's happening with the
spine and the spinal alignment so now it comes down to understanding well what is
normal what is ideal so we need to start with that and so when we look at the
spine normal alignment from the front it should be straight up and down but from
the side we have this curve system that's set up this is the strongest
position for the spine to be in and it's also the ideal position for the spine to
be in order for that spinal cord and those nerve roots to be able to
communicate with the rest of the body so what happens when the spine gets twisted
shifted and misaligned in there now causes pressure on those nerves so that's
that subluxation causing interference or poor communication in this nervous
system affecting this pathway here which is ultimately your health so now once we
identify these misalignments on x-ray we can now implement chiropractic care to
correct the spine to the optimal level so that you can now get function back in
the nervous system okay so that's what chiropractors do we identify this
subluxation and now we provide the chiropractic adjustment
or chiropractic care to correct those subluxations to correct those
misalignments to get the spine back into a healthier position not
necessarily just to get someone to feel better and get them out of pain because
that's actually just a positive side effect of correcting the spine
but it's to actually get the nervous system to function better to express a
higher level of health and this is where chiropractic can help with so many other
issues from digestive problems it can help people lose weight it can help
people focus better sleep better so many different aspects of health where people
don't traditionally think of chiropractic and it's because we're
adjusting the spine exactly where you need it when you need it to address the
subluxations which are really just a block in communication from brain to body
okay so what what is chiropractic not right so there are a lot of different
adjunctive procedures that we can implement to help with chiropractic care
or help manage pain so they're not necessarily chiropractic but they're
chiropractic-like so for example massage therapy massage therapy can be great in
alleviating pain getting blood flow to the soft tissue and to the muscles and
can actually help with your chiropractic care to remove some of the soft tissue
restrictions however sometimes we find that it doesn't correct the problem and
sometimes it can even mask the issue because it gets you feeling better for a
little while as the condition of the spine those subluxations get worse so
for example if this is a side view of your spine and
you're meant to have this curve in the neck like that but your x-rays and your
alignment looks like that these muscles back here under are under
a lot of stress they're being tensioned they are being pulled tight like a rubber
band it's affecting those discs the spinal cord of those nerves coming out
now a lot of people feel tightness and and restriction in these muscles back
here and so the tendency is to want to stretch that and massage them but we
just rub these muscles here that are actually trying to support the head and
pull the head back if we actually relax those muscles what happens to the head
it goes further you're actually taking away that support the reason why those
muscles are tight is because it's actually trying to prevent further
buckling forward of the spine it wants to bring the head back into position so
that's what we do with corrective care we want to try and work on getting that
head and neck back into a better position to alleviate the stress in the
muscles to take the stress load off so that's really important to understand
again the massage can help with getting the soft tissue healthier with blood
flow and help facilitate the adjustments but it's not necessarily always
correcting the problem it's the same thing with exercise and rehabilitation and
stretches so if your alignment is like that and you're doing a lot of stretches
it can actually make you worse because you're not getting back into the proper
anatomical position and you may be loading the discs causing more harm than
good what we need to do is work on correcting that problem
again say this is your alignment you can ice it you can eat it you can rub it you
can stretch it that's not going to correct that problem we need to get that
head back into a better position well let's also say the look at the
traditional ways that most people handle these problems they'll typically have
pain or wait until pain comes about they might get localized pain headaches or
maybe even pain going down through the arms because those nerves are now or the
sensory portion of those nerves are now being affected and so if they go to
their doctor or they you know go to a pharmacy and they get over-the-counter
medications there's no medication that will ever correct this problem you know
no injections no pain relievers no muscle relaxers that will ever correct
this problem if anything it may just make the
person feel better but mask the issue as it continues to get worse over time so it's
really important to correct this as quickly as possible through corrective
care chiropractic now other things that are not chiropractic
but maybe chiropractic-like would be nutrition most people have an
inflammatory diet they're not feeding themselves the foods that they need to
help support their tissues our bodies are regenerating themselves every single
day we're developing new cells and we do that through the foods that we eat so
that the foods that we assimilate into our body which is really through our
nervous system allowing that digestive function to take place so we need to eat
better foods to support that so now that's allowing the body to heal itself
but it's not chiropractic it's not looking at subluxations it's not looking
at doing those chiropractic adjustments to restore that alignment which then
restore that connection between brain and body they may be great so again
nutrition supplements massage rehab all great things to help the body function
better but we need to look at the appropriateness and actually look at the
root cause of these issues now there's no surgery that's ever going to fix that
and actually with the more you ignore these problems the more you try to mask
them the more likely you are to head down this path of surgery which has been
proven to be less successful than most people actually realize and so more
times than not that person ends up back in the same amount of pain if not more
they're also dependent on medications and
moving towards a second third and maybe fourth surgery so they still have pain
and disability after the fact so again really important that we get to the root
of the issue understand chiropractic and how it can help you and your health the
health of your family the health of your friends really important to understand
this because then you're getting at the most out of your care you're going to
understand why we're doing the things that we do we're going to understand why it
might take time to correct the spine especially if it's been there for a long
period of time now I hope that you found all this information interesting I hope
it made sense to you because this really is a common-sense approach I would
encourage you to check out some of our pre and post x-rays so before and after
care you can actually see where those misalignments are and how we got them to
correction resolution of symptoms and get them healthier moving them away from
drugs and surgery at a higher quality of life if you found this interesting and
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